During the sixth millennium B.C.E., carvers in present-day Sweden etched patterns into the artifact before redecorating it in ...

Anomalous Ancient Stone Artifacts At Abu Ghurob In EgyptUncover baffling artifacts at Abu Ghurob that challenge conventional timelines and point to lost ancient technologies.#AbuGurob# ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen ...

after examining the artifact under a digital microscope, researchers have discovered its likely purpose: Residents of Stone Age Sweden used it as a battle ax before turning it into a fishing harpoon.

Ivory doesn’t hold up as well against weathering as bone, making it a less suitable material for toolmaking, researchers said. It also breaks into smaller pieces, making it harder to use with any deal ...

The toolmaker would flake pieces of stone off the core to carefully shape the Quina scraper ... likely due to archaeologists' narrow definitions based on European examples. The Quina tools at Longtan ...